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>From 71250.1322@CompuServe.COM Mon Oct 25 07:03:17 1993
Date: 25 Oct 93 01:47:14 EDT
From: "Carl W. Brown" <71250.1322@CompuServe.COM>
To: <jbowyer@cis.vutbr.cz>
Subject: International Keyboards
Message-Id: <931025054713_71250.1322_EHK28-1@CompuServe.COM>

I am president of X.Net, Inc.  and the chairman of the ACCESS.bus
keyboard committee.

X.Net is currently developing a new type of keyboard that will not cost much
more than a standard keyboard and will have the same touch and feel of a
standard keyboard, yet to will allow you to type in any language with the
keys marked with the proper symbols for the language or symbol set that you
are currently using.

ACCESS.bus is a new low cost open standard bus system for low speed device
that is as easy to use as a telephone.  Just plug it in.  It will replace
you keyboard, mouse, game port, serial and parallel ports with a single
4 wire connector that will support up to 125 devices.  Just plug them in and
use them you don't even have to re-boot the machine.  It will also allow you
to have a French and and Arabic keyboard on the same system.  You take a
German keyboard from one system to another.  It will also allow you to use
the same keyboard on a PC, Apple, or DEC workstation.

Unfortunately I find the ISO/EUC 9995 standard inadequate.  It does not
define much of what I need including standard keyboard language layouts.

I am proposing that the keyboard be defined by a pair of mappings a
language map and a physical layout map.  The language map could be
overridden for those who wanted to use stickers or were multi-lingual touch
typists.

Carl